Sep. 22, 2022: Trump vs. James, appeals panel rejects Cannon ruling
The two big stories in Trump World:\n1. In a Wednesday night ruling, a three-judge federal appeals panel sided with the Justice Department, blocking \u201caspects of \u2026 Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling that delayed a criminal investigation into highly sensitive documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate,\u201d write Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein.\nTwo of the three judges were Trump appointees. Their decision was unanimous. And it was unsparing.\nFrom the ruling: \u201cPlaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President. But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. \u2026 In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring.\u201d Read the 29-page decision\nMeanwhile, here\u2019s Trump on Fox News\u2019 \u201cHannity\u201d on Wednesday night: \u201cIf you\u2019re president of the United States, you can declassify \u2026\xa0even by thinking about it.\u201d Video\n2. New York AG Tish James filed suit against Trump and his three oldest children, alleging a yearslong campaign of deception and large-scale fraud. Her office is seeking to recover about $250 million that it says they netted from the scheme. The juiciest takeaways, via Josh and Kyle \u2026 The James-Trump backstory, by Erin Durkin \u2026 Forbes\u2019 Dan Alexander: \u201cExclusive Recording, Documents Bolster Trump Fraud Lawsuit\u201d\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.